AVATAR Sequels Will Use Mariana Trench as a Shooting Location

By Bryan Kritz
Published: September 13, 2010 - 11:52am
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James Cameron is no stranger to filming underwater as seen with films like Titanic and The Abyss. Now it appears he wants to go deeper into the ocean's depths for the highest grossing film of all time, Avatar.

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Cameron has his eyes set on the Mariana Trench for one of the sequel's shooting locations. The trench lies in the western Pacific and has been visited by human life only once before in a descent that took five hours. The distance Cameron plans to travel, 36,000 feet, is deeper than Mount Everest’s height. He intends to dive into the trench and capture footage he can use in the next two films.

The director has already stated that exploring the seas of Pandora would be a main theme in the sequels. At this point there has been no confirmation of what actors/characters may return to the franchise. Shooting will be done back to back with an estimated 2014 release for the first film.

As he has done on previous films and documentaries, Cameron is making his own equipment: a two seat vessel with 3D cameras attached.

"We are building a vehicle to do the dive", Cameron told The Sunday Times. "It's about half-completed in Australia."

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Sunday Times (via The Geek Files)

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Underwater stuff freaks me out...

Submitted by Boy October on September 13, 2010 - 12:05pm.

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James Cameron is pretentious in everything he does. I've never really been a huge fan of his films either, they just don't appeal to me, the characters and settings he chooses have never pulled me in. Maybe I'm just too picky.

Submitted by Interesting John on September 13, 2010 - 12:12pm.

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Interesting John wrote:
James Cameron is pretentious in everything he does. I've never really been a huge fan of his films either, they just don't appeal to me, the characters and settings he chooses have never pulled me in. Maybe I'm just too picky.

You pretentious bastard! Laughing out loud

Avatar was ok for me but I've loved his underwater stuff as far as cinematography goes. The Abyss was very well done, imo. He has some other underwater flick coming out next year called Sanctum; I think its a documentary.

Submitted by Bryan Kritz on September 13, 2010 - 12:15pm.

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I would much rather see James Cameron involved in other projects rather than being tied up with Avatar sequels for the next 4-6 years.

Submitted by ckal on September 13, 2010 - 12:16pm.

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Interesting John wrote:

James Cameron is pretentious in everything he does. I've never really been a huge fan of his films either, they just don't appeal to me, the characters and settings he chooses have never pulled me in. Maybe I'm just too picky.

Ditto. The characters and settings are what are SUPPOSE to pull you into his flicks, since he tells unoriginal stories. Avatar didn't show me anything I hadn't seen in umpteen Final Fantasy games before. T2 is the only movie of his that has repeated-viewing standing in my house.

Submitted by theguilty1 on September 13, 2010 - 5:51pm.

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getting Avatarded underwater this time, huh? Well alrighty.

Submitted by DarthMulder on September 13, 2010 - 7:54pm.

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No way you could get me that deep under water. There would have to be sea monsters that low right? Eek

Submitted by SLCpunk801 on September 14, 2010 - 10:35am.